Butler
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Results
| College Basketball Crown | 04/02 23:00 | 3 |
Butler v
Boise State
|
L | 93-100 | |
| College Basketball Crown | 03/31 19:00 | 122 |
Utah
v
Butler |
W | 84-86 | |
| NCAAB | 03/13 16:00 | 3 | [9] Butler v St. John's [1] | L | 57-78 | |
| NCAAB | 03/12 20:00 | 122 | [9] Butler v Providence [10] | W | 75-69 | |
| NCAAB | 03/08 23:00 | - |
[8] Butler v
Creighton
[4] 
|
L | 74-87 | |
| NCAAB | 03/06 00:00 | - | [5] Xavier v Butler [8] | L | 91-78 | |
| NCAAB | 03/01 17:00 | - | [8] Butler v Villanova [6] | L | 70-80 | |
| NCAAB | 02/27 02:00 | - | [1] St. John's v Butler [8] | L | 76-70 | |
| NCAAB | 02/23 01:00 | - | [8] Butler v DePaul [10] | W | 84-72 | |
| NCAAB | 02/19 01:00 | - | [8] Butler v Xavier [5] | L | 63-76 | |
| NCAAB | 02/15 19:00 | - | [5] Georgetown v Butler [8] | W | 86-97 | |
| NCAAB | 02/08 20:00 | - | [220] Providence v Butler [257] | W | 81-82 |
Wikipedia - Butler Bulldogs men's basketball
The Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represents Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. The school's team currently competes in the Big East Conference. They play their home games at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
History
Butler competed as part of the Horizon League since its founding, and played basketball in other regional conferences before that, including the Missouri Valley Conference. In 2012 they left the Horizon League for the Atlantic 10 and the year after, moved to the Big East.
Despite having played in a mid-major conference, Butler rose to national prominence in the late 1990s. They ranked in most media polls for all but a few weeks from the 2006–07 season to the 2011–12 season, and competed in the postseason every year since 1997, except for 2004, 2005, and 2014. In the 2010 NCAA tournament, Butler was the National runner-up to Duke, advancing to the National Championship Game after defeating Michigan State in the Final Four. With a total enrollment of only 4,500 students, Butler is the smallest school to play for a national championship since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The Bulldogs also went to the championship game in the following NCAA tournament, falling to UConn after defeating VCU in the Final Four. With the victory over VCU, Butler became the first mid-major program to reach the championship game in successive seasons since 1979, when seeding of the tournament began, and the only team from the state of Indiana to reach back-to-back championship games. The Bulldogs also won the National Championship in 1927, though it was before March Madness so it does not count for NCAA records.
After spending one season in the Atlantic 10 Conference, Butler moved into the realigned basketball-only Big East Conference for the 2013–14 season. Their first season was mediocre, finishing 9th out of 10 teams with a 14–17 record, their first losing record since 2004–05. In their second season, despite being picked to finish 7th, the Bulldogs surprised many by finishing tied for second place in the conference. Butler finished the 2015–16 season in a tie for fourth place in Big East play with a record of 21–11, 10–8 in conference and receiving a bid to the NCAA tournament where they advanced to the Second Round.